Archive for November, 2008

No, this isn’t some lamenting post on how Black Friday isn’t so great this year. I just forgot to mention on my own blog the launch of CheapenGadget.com (but, most of you probably got the notice from reading elsewhere).
As such, I probably won’t be posting good deals over here for the forseeable future. No worries [...]

With the latest iPhone update, I’ve found myself doing something I didn’t do before… listening to podcasts.
Like many, I just didn’t see the need for them. If I want to watch a video, I’ll search for it on the web, download it… and usually watch it in higher quality than via a podcast. I don’t [...]

Remember the Core Solo processor? It was most prominently used in the original Intel-based Mac mini (mostly because it was the first budget Mac using an Intel processor). The Core Solo was used in a lot of mid-range and ultraportable systems.
So, when Core 2 Solo came out, I was dismayed to learn it was only [...]

I am staring at a dead Windows Home Server. And, it appears the latest NVIDIA ForceWare drivers (version 178.24) are to blame.
What happens, is that after installing the latest ForceWare drivers, Windows Home Server doesn’t allow users to log in via the Console and Remote Desktop. Yes, a graphics card update that winds up locking [...]

Where have I been this week? Good question. The tough financial times prompted our office space’s administrator to delay installing our new carpet… until after we moved in.
So, I’ve been taking the past few days to empty everything out of my office, so that tomorrow the new carpet can be installed. That’s no small task considering there’s [...]

There’s a rumor spreading like wildfire across the web that the Zune will be used as a secondary hard drive for game and content purchases on the Xbox 360.
I’ll outline why it’s a bogus rumor.
See, the rumor started because of a survey. Essentially, the user was asked what they connected to their Xbox 360. One [...]

You may have read over on PhoneNews.com how T-Mobile and Nokia are teaming up to offer subsidized handsets at Best Buy.
Awhile back, folks from Nokia’s social networking division invited me to dinner. They asked me “Christopher, what’s the one big thing that we could do to make N-Series phones sell well in the United States?”
I [...]

Perian is a popular QuickTime Component, which adds several formats to QuickTime. This allows you to play everything from Divx to Flash Video inside of QuickTime, all with one simple tool. It’s great, and I wish Apple would incorporate as much of Perian as possible into QuickTime.
However, there is one problem. Perian replaces Apple’s H.264 [...]

As I posted in an update over on CheapenGadget.com, the electoral college map went Web 2.0 this year.
ABC News is hosting an Adobe Flash-infused version of the election results. The nice thing about it, is that results are updated instantly. There’s no waiting for the page to reload, and no auto-reloading required. This is a [...]

JR.com is offering a Soyo 32-inch LCD EDTV for only $449.99. This is probably the best television on the market for playing Nintendo Wii or Sega Dreamcast games. It features HDMI, VGA, Component, S-Video, and Composite video inputs.
As much as I’d like to buy one… it’s just too pricey. For under $400, you can now [...]